Our Princesses
A couple of years ago while we celebrated my Mothers birthday at the local Veterans Hall, I snapped a photo of three of our princesses – my two grand nieces and my granddaughter. I decided this year to paint my version of that photo.
The sketch was drawn on the canvas where it sat for maybe 6 months or more. My RA flaring and a bout of flu (despite having the shot) stopped me from much. Once I felt better I was not sure which art medium direction I wanted to use on this piece. Finally, decided to begin with water color pencils.
Once the water coloring was completed, the result wasn’t satisfying to me, so out came the blendable water based ink pens. Wella! I LOVED the ink atop the color pencils, it blended so very nicely. Somewhere along the line I made the decision to change the look of the flag instead of literal but more whimsical and added-stitching, I know the stitching idea came from my quilting friends & family.
Next the medium for the flag acrylics, I decided to go with a visual of hopes and dreams….floating & swirling for our Princesses. I am not finished this piece. It still needs a touch or two more but I don’t know what yet. So until I do it will be placed prominently in my studio until that, “Wella!” Moment occurs.👩🏽🎨🎨😉
Commission – “Keco’s Kiss”
Videos and photos below of the process
Black Lives Matter 2019 exhibit
Water color pencil practice – Church Ladies
I drew a new work and decided I wanted to use both watercolors and acrylics for the piece. However, I haven’t worked with watercolors consistently in years and never on a canvas wrapped canvas. So, I began practicing with watercolor pencils on canvases before I begin my larger creation. Here is my practice work of a previous sketch entitled, “Ladies of Liberty.”
“Ladies of Liberty” watercolor.
Painting Natalie
2019
I created a sketch of Natalie in 2018. She then took my sketch and drew it onto a canvas. I began painting Natalies likenss from the sketch at the end of last summer. Finally, this year I was able to return my attention to the painting of Natalie having completed Christmas commissions. Here is the process and the completed work. If you would like a painting created with metallics fill in the contact form at the end of this page and I will respond within 24 hours.
Wood plates with Faux stained glass
Michael
I’ve been working on dimensional portraits using acrylics. I have tweaked, tweaked and tweaked this one over again and still didn’t do justice to Michael.
